{"id":841253,"date":"2026-03-29T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/841253\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:10:12","slug":"how-much-salary-cap-space-are-colts-projected-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/841253\/","title":{"rendered":"How much salary cap space are Colts projected to have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2026, 9:27 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It&#8217;s very early, but let&#8217;s take a look ahead to the <a href=\"\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Indianapolis Colts&#8217;<\/a> 2027 salary cap situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">This offseason, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/indianapolis-colts\/338\" data-autotag=\"d3fda36a-3eb5-4700-8763-caba831c06ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Colts<\/a> are positioned well salary-cap-wise, which is in large part due to Indianapolis <a href=\"http:\/\/coltswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/colts\/2026\/03\/13\/colts-steelers-michael-pittman-trade-official-full-trade-details\/89139453007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trading Michael Pittman<\/a>, a move that freed up $24 million in 2026 salary cap space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Following the initial free agency waves, the Colts have $26.62 million in available cap space. This ranks as the 12th-most in the NFL. Of note, any unused cap space from 2026 can be rolled over to 2027.<\/p>\n<p>How much projected salary cap space do the Colts have in 2027?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">At this moment, <a href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Over the Cap<\/a> is projecting that the Colts have $88.10 million in cap space for the 2027 season. Only eight NFL teams are projected to have more space than the Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:4|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The largest salary cap hits on the roster next year belong to Daniel Jones ($46.8M), Charvarius Ward ($24.66M), Alec Pierce ($35.2M), Bernhard Raimann ($30.6M), and Sauce Gardner ($20.95M).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Like every other NFL team, the Colts have the ability to create more room through contract restructures, certain veteran cuts, or even contract extensions in some instances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">From the front office to the coaching staff to the roster, the Colts could undergo significant change next offseason if Indianapolis fails to make the playoffs again in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 29, 2026, 9:27 a.m. ET It&#8217;s very early, but let&#8217;s take a look ahead to the Indianapolis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[95878,2005,7,723,2004,392,2381,6,49915,95900,96014,95882,97159,97539,96015,97130,95903,96013,95896,95888,95899,96176,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-841253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-colts","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-in","12":"tag-indianapolis","13":"tag-indianapolis-colts","14":"tag-indianapoliscolts","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflcolts","17":"tag-sstsncolts","18":"tag-tagalec-pierce","19":"tag-tagamerican-football","20":"tag-tagbernhard-raimann","21":"tag-tagcharvarius-ward","22":"tag-tagdaniel-jones","23":"tag-tagindianapolis","24":"tag-tagindianapolis-colts","25":"tag-tagmichael-pittman-jr","26":"tag-tagnational-sports","27":"tag-tagnfl","28":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","29":"tag-tagsauce-gardner","30":"tag-tagsports-news","31":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116313576282689892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}